Just a heads up.
I have discovered, what I believe to be, a bug in Windows 8 that I felt I should make SSD users aware of. If I go to the “Optimize and defragment drive” and click the Optimize option, Windows will run the TRIM command just fine as long as you have ran the Windows Experience Index at least once. Most people are aware of the above but I have also found, on my system, that Windows 8 “Automatic Maintenance” does not follow the same rules and will defrag and consolidate the SSDs on a schedule.
You can get to the Automatic Maintenance option by:
Control Panel>Action Center>
Click the down arrow on the right under the "Maintenance" heading
From here you can run it and test or turn off the schedule.
I have found this to be true in RAID 0 but have not been able to test with a single SSD.
Note:
I am not sure if the Automatic Maintenance is on by default. It was active on my PC.
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